A lawyer who wept after getting busted last year is preparing to cop a plea in connection with crooked money manager Kenneth Starr’s $33 million-plus Ponzi scheme, prosecutors revealed this morning.

Former Winston & Strawn partner Jonathan Bristol has reached an “agreement in principle” to resolve charges he laundered more than $20 million Starr stole from his celebrity clients, prosecutor Michael Bosworth said.

Manhattan federal Judge Deborah Batts set a May 2 hearing for Bristol to plead guilty.

Defense lawyer Susan Kellman said afterward that “it’s too early to say” what punishment he’ll get, noting that she had yet to receive a written offer from the feds.

Bristol — who was ordered to see a shrink after he repeatedly broke down in tears the day he surrendered in December — declined to comment.

He’s accused of billing Starr more than $1 million for legal services while funneling his crooked cash through two attorney trust accounts.

Starr used some of the dough to buy a $7.5 million triplex on the Upper East Side where he lived with his fourth wife, former Scores dancer Diane Passage, and her teenage son.

Starr was sentenced last week to 7 1/2 years in the slammer for his brazen scam.

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’ Office declined to comment.